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Say ZTE to anyone working in the mobile industry and those 3 letter conjure up images of Chinese spies building backdoors into their infrastructure equipment so they can gain access to confidential data, that or some really low end feature phone or smartphone that has questionable build quality, and yet competes with devices from other…
When your out and about, running around town, and you have some time to kill while waiting in line or commuting, chances are you whip out your mobile phone and start catching up on what’s going on with your friends and around the world. This was always assumed to be the ultimate use case for…
We’re at the cusp of entering an age where our mobile phones, which started out as devices used for voice calls, but over the last 5 years have come to replace our digital cameras, music players, and for some people have even become a web browser they spend several hours a day interacting with, will…
Say you’re an Android developer and you want to know how many of your users are on the latest version of the operating system, what the most popular device running your application is, and where your app is taking off versus where you need to invest more marketing dollars. All that has been possible thanks…
Forget about the recent advances made in the areas of delivering high speed internet access to your mobile phone for a second. Most people use their handset for the same reason phones were invented over a century ago, to have a conversation. Improvements to call quality has been fairly minor over the past few years,…
Opera has just announced that they’re going to launch both Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 at CTIA next week. Opera Mini will be available in native form for Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, and of course they’ll be a J2ME version for all those feature phones out there that make up the bulk of Opera…
Banging out a 160 character text message to your mate, asking him if you should pick up anything on your way to the party, is stupid. Most people know this, but they do it anyway. Laws have been setup to deter people from using their mobile phones while behind the wheel of a car, but…
Several documents filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Nokia reveal a rough sketch of a tablet device that looks remarkably similar to the N8 that was released last autumn. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard rumors that Nokia was working on a tablet. Back in November of 2010 the “Z500”…
In much the same way that America had to standardize their track gauges in order to build a railway system that stretched from the east coast to the west coast, something similar has to happen for Near Field Communication (NFC) to take off. Some operators are giving customers NFC stickers they can place on the…
Sprint is one of the two major American operators to use CDMA technology to power their cellular network; the other is Verizon. There’s nothing wrong with CDMA since it does voice and SMS just fine, but now that high speed data networks are all the rage it’s time to explore some different options. Sprint decided…